JAKARTA - INDONESIA needs a new state commission to oversee sweeping reform of the judicial system, a process which could take 10-20 years to complete, a top legal expert told Reuters in an interview on Friday.

Mr Adnan Buyung Nasution, who heads a team of legal and human rights experts appointed by the president to investigate a scandal involving the country's law enforcement agencies, is due to present the team's final recommendations next week.

MANILA - COMMUNIST guerrillas raided and torched a logging company in the southern Philippines and killed at least 12 people in a shootout with security forces, officials said on Friday.

YANGON - MYANMAR pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday lodged an appeal with the military-ruled country's highest court against her extended house arrest, her main lawyer said.

The Nobel laureate was ordered to spend another 18 months in detention in August after a court convicted her over an incident in which a US man swam to her house. An initial appeal was rejected in October.